Question
5
1/1pts
What
is
this
mass
wasting
landform
(S
43.571196°
E
172.757795°)?
|
suggest
that
you
view
this
landform
in
Google
Earth
looking
towards
the
west
and
zoom
into
an
eye
altitude
of
about
0.1
km
(100
meters).
translational
slide
debris
flow
rock
fall
rotational
slump
Yes.
The
best
description
for
this
mass
wasting
would
be
rock
fall.
This
is
one
of
many
events
that
took
place
in
2011
associated
with
an
earthquake
in
Christchurch,
New
Zealand.
There
are
a
series
of
blogs
on
these
mass
wasting
events:
http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/08/05/landslides-
from-the-christchurch-earthquakes-part-4-large-scale-cliff-collapses/
&
If
you
look
around
this
area,
you
will
see
cliff
collapses
where
old
box
cars
have
been
stacked
to
catch
future
boulders
that
make
detach.
For
example,
look
at
this
area:
S43.569629°
E
172.757905°
Then,
in
other
areas,
people
have
planted
trees
to
trap
future
rolling
talus:
S
43.583376°
E
172.718830°
